Bug#446036: exim4: please compile against openssl instead of gnutls

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:58:46PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:12:51AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > It's not as if
> > > there's a licensing issue - there is an explicit excemption for openssl.
> > 
> > So you want to have the mysql binding removed from exim4-daemon-heavy?
> > Or exim4-daemon-heavy against gnutls and -light against openssl?
> 
> Why would that be an issue?  mysql isn't linking to openssl, exim is.

I'd say that the "links" attribute is transitive, so that we'd have
linkage of openssl via exim to mysql.

> > > That being said, I am not interested in BTS ping pong and won't argue
> > > if you decide to downgrade the bug.
> > 
> > I will probably refer this to the tech ctte.
> 
> *shrug*.  Sure, whatever you like.  ftp-master is the more obvious
> people to ask, but whichever seems reasonable to you.

I think that a question to the tech ctte has more chance of receiving
an answer.

Greetings
Marc

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